no xterm on XGGI
John Fortin
fortinj@attglobal.net
Thu Mar 30 10:34:00 GMT 2000
> I also tried (xterm -display localhost:0 -e /g/contrib/bin/tcsh.exe &). Nothing happens within a minute of
> invoking it.
> I also tried setting DISPLAY on a Solaris machine and running xterm, and didn't get anything there either.
Can you try an xclock, or an oclock, and try from a bash shell instead of a tcsh shell. I don't have tcsh here
to see if it a problem or not.
> There's a strange thing happening in the cygwin tcsh. When I run
> % XGGI -targets directxnt &
> Then bring the tcsh window to the foreground and hit ^c, XGGI quits. Other keys are interpreted directly by
> tcsh, but XGGI is capturing and acting on the ^c.
Cywin has had a problem in the past of killing backround processes when ^c is hit. It seems to come and go.
You might try a newer snapshot of cygwin1.dll
John
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